What AB 2552 does
An act to amend Section 21080.44 of the Public Resources Code, relating to environmental quality, and declaring the urgency thereof, to take effect immediately.
The California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) requires a lead agency, as defined, to prepare, or cause to be prepared, and certify the completion of an environmental impact report on a project that it proposes to carry out or approve that may have a significant effect on the environment or to adopt a negative declaration if it finds that the project will not have that effect. CEQA also requires a lead agency to prepare a mitigated negative declaration for a project that may have a significant effect on the environment if revisions in the project would avoid or mitigate that effect and there is no substantial evidence that the project, as revised, would have a significant effect on the environment.
If a lead agency determines that a project will have a significant transportation impact, existing law authorizes the lead agency to mitigate the transportation impact to a less than significant level by helping to fund or otherwise facilitating housing or related infrastructure projects, including by contributing an amount, to be determined pursuant to guidance issued by the Office of Land Use and Climate Innovation, to the Transit-Oriented Development Implementation Fund for purposes of the Transit-Oriented Development Implementation Program. Existing law makes those moneys available to the Department of Housing and Community Development, upon appropriation by the Legislature, for the purpose of awarding funding for affordable housing or related infrastructure projects under the program in accordance with specified priorities. On or before July 1, 2026, and at least once every 3 years thereafter, existing law requires the office, in consultation with other state agencies, to issue guidance related to the implementation of these provisions, as provided.
This bill would authorize a lead agency for a land use project to require an applicant to contribute to the Transit-Oriented Development Implementation Fund if certain cost conditions are met and the department and the office have validated the reductions in vehicle miles traveled that are attributable to the project, as specified.
This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.
Summary from the Legislative Counsel's Digest of the amended assembly text, April 16, 2026. Read the full text on leginfo.
How it got here
Assemblymember Ávila Farías introduced AB 2552 on February 20, 2026, with coauthors Assembly Members Alanis, Alvarez, Dixon, Jeff Gonzalez, Hadwick, Hoover, Ransom, and Wallis and Senator Niello. The text was amended 1 time, and heard in 2 committee hearings before its final floor votes.
Committee votes along the way:
- Assembly Natural Resources, April 13, 2026: Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Housing and Community Development], 13-0.
- Assembly Housing and Community Development, April 29, 2026: Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations], 11-0.
Who supports and opposes AB 2552
The Assembly Housing and Community Development analysis dated April 27, 2026 lists 29 organizations in support and 5 in opposition. When Assembly Natural Resources first listed positions on April 12, 2026, the count was 27 in support and 1 opposed. By the Assembly Housing and Community Development analysis of April 27, 2026 it was 29 to 5.
In support: California Building Industry Association (sponsor); American Council of Engineering Companies; Apartment Association of Greater Los Angeles; Boma California; Building Industry Association of Fresno and Madera Counties; Building Industry Association of the Bay Area; Building Industry Association of Tulare/kings County; California Apartment Association; and 21 more.
Opposed: California Housing Partnership Corporation; Enterprise Community Partners; Housing California; Planning and Conservation League; Transform.
Read the Assembly Housing and Community Development analysis.
What happens next
It is in Assembly Appropriations. The last recorded action was on April 29, 2026.
The Governor can sign the bill, veto it, or let it become law without a signature. Until the decision, sign and veto request letters are the remaining channel, and the Department of Finance's enrolled bill report carries weight on anything with a fiscal effect. If signed, most provisions take effect January 1, and implementation moves to the agencies named in the bill.
What it means for transportation organizations
This is the stage where language still changes. Amendments taken in committee are the ones that reach the Governor, so an organization with a stake in the drafting has a reason to be in that conversation now rather than after the vote.
The transportation group at Capitol Axis handles that for transportation clients.
Questions about AB 2552
What does AB 2552 do?
This bill would authorize a lead agency for a land use project to require an applicant to contribute to the Transit-Oriented Development Implementation Fund if certain cost conditions are met and the department and the office have validated the reductions in vehicle miles traveled that are attributable to the project, as specified.
Has AB 2552 passed the California Legislature?
It is in Assembly Appropriations. The last recorded action was on April 29, 2026.
Who supports and opposes AB 2552?
The Assembly Housing and Community Development analysis dated April 27, 2026 lists 29 organizations in support and 5 in opposition. Supporters include California Building Industry Association (sponsor); American Council of Engineering Companies; Apartment Association of Greater Los Angeles. Opponents include California Housing Partnership Corporation; Enterprise Community Partners; Housing California.
What happens next with AB 2552?
It still has committee and floor votes ahead of it. Amendments taken now are the ones that reach the Governor, so this is the stage where language changes are still possible.